Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. We all want to work on Stuff That Matters. If you're looking for a new job, look for a company that offers the chance to work on Stuff That Matters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We hunger for them. Name your craving What do you hunger for? For example, if your big vision is to write a book about knitting that is wildly successful, your recipe could be called, My Fabulous, Famous Knitting Book That Inspires People and Makes Money. The same is true for the big visions we have for our lives.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

The following books ask you to rethink your assumptions, consider new approaches, and act on your best ideas. 14 Must-Read Books for Nonprofits. While people typically seek advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money, this book will help you discover how to spend money to boost your happiness. . Dive in today. .

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. In short, great storytelling tugs heartstrings and that’s step 1 if you want a donation.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Prior to this, he established an in-house “Zero Hunger” innovation accelerator and created an award winning crowdfunding smartphone app, ShareTheMeal. Kimberly Mitchell.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? What can you share that just might transform the sector?

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JUNE 20, 2022

For example: “The organization’s purpose is to fight hunger in our community.”. The Bottom Line Your bylaws are your rule book for governing your nonprofit. If you include your mission statement and your mission statement changes, as they often do, you need to update your bylaws. A more general statement will have more staying power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Last week Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote gave me a copy of their a new book. Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth for a book giveaway on my blog. Why would we want a free book? for poverty, hunger and homeless advocacy and change. Mobilizing Generation 2.0: 3 months in a row.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. Ed Nicholson from Tyson Foods pointed to two excellent examples of young girl who raised money for hunger relief by asking her friends to donate money to host a mobile food pantry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. From now until the film's December 25 release, Disney will donate one new book to First Book (up to 250,000 books) for every comment posted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This is also a good time to remind all nptechies about our free e-book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery and also the Mobile Beacon post: Preparing for Disaster and Tech Planning. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? The New FCC Ruling on Net Neutrality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

” A ‘Little Bet” as defined by Peter Sims, author of the book – Little Bets, is a small action that you can take to discover something new. Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.” Test your assumptions.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

When the donor opened the email, it explained that the school was celebrating Curl Up With A Good Book Day, a day devoted to reading and writing. Fight hunger with us. For example, an education foundation recently sent an email subject line that read: Our teachers are refusing to teach math today! . Pose a question. Be the light.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. Take a quick look around their homebase Web site to easily see their creative use of social media, from bloggers campaigns to Wall Against Hunger. Editing Software.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2013

Register for one or all three sessions ; plus, you''ll get a copy of the book: Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Multichannel Strategies to Reach Your Mission included with your registration. We loved reading this Points of Light blog post from an inspiring fourth grader who describes his work to fight hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The causes that are supported are listed here a good mix of wildlife conservation, hunger, and others. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. And, of course, you get badges for various activities.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2014

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. However, what if she was told no? Effie Trinket tells her, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2014

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. However, what if she was told no? Effie Trinket tells her, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. He is now using his iPad with Sketch book pro and a stylus – which makes it possible for more immediate posting. I’m inspired to do more electronic doodling myself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For the past 20 years, Tom Iselin, a former stock options trader turned social entrepreneur, has founded and built some of the nation's most notable nonprofits - The Hunger Coalition, DrugFreeWave, and Higher Ground. In April, Tom published his third book, First Things First.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The top 100.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Northwest Harvest Food Bank used its social media channels to mobilize supporters to give food donations that ended up breaking a Guinness Book of World Records.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. Since then he has authored several books and has become a voice for change in the nonprofit sector. ” The separate rule book discriminates against the sector in five big areas: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Will hunger ever gain Beiber-like prominence? 3 Big Listening Gives You Gives You Perspective on Your Impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). The United Nations has chosen the theme of, "Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women and Girls," for this year's International Women's Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Among the scholars Notre Dame invited to speak to us was Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (author of the book ???The    Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  The End of Poverty??? ). It was only after I heard Dr. Sachs???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Bill Gates said, "This is one of the best books written." "The funny thing that having Bill Gates say he loves your book. " He mentioned that the game Civilization 4 came out since the book as published.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I have been reading the wonderful book Forces for Good, by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, where this dilemma is presented quite starkly. But what’s fascinating about the organizations studied in this book, is that they have all done both.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. There seems to be a hunger these days to document, research, and celebrate the diverse places and ways that people make and share art outside of formal, recognized institutions. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I read the book. I was going to write a review and do a book giveaway, but I stumbled upon Wiser Earth blogger Angus Parker's excellent review. We have read a lot of books over the last year that aimed to be the "go to" source for understanding Social Media. Note from Beth: I got a review copy. It rocked.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Let’s assume your organization’s mission is to address a really big problem — say eliminating hunger in the United States. So many people in America struggle with hunger and food insecurity – how can her small donation possibly help? And your support today will bring us one step closer to eliminating hunger in the United States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. You don't need to solve world hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Check out his free e-book the New Rules of Viral Marketing ). #5 I point out two good examples, the Hunger is Unacceptable Campaign (which uses the hold the sign meme -- the first one I ever did was in December 2005 for Netsquared ) and the Humane Society's LOL Seals.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. So really good book just above costs and I’m offering them at $8 and my book on “Organizational Development.”

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